On October 5th, 2020, one of the alliances in the temporary mega coalition PAPI, the main aggressor in the war to evict goons from their space in World War Bee 2, began onlining a Keepstar in a NPC Delve system named FWST-8. This Keepstar, anchored by Fraternity, would signal the beginning of the end for The Imperium but only if it were permitted to online.

The Keepstar, which was anchored in secret, was suddenly the center of a lot of attention. The Imperium began forming massively to kill it, leaving the PAPI alliances to rageform to defend it.

TEST, one of the major PAPI alliances, had not prepared its members that this was going down as it was done in secret and so it was left getting whatever members it could into fleet. A long battle was kicked off where goons primary means of assault was the Stalingrad style strategy of bringing in small groups of longrange fit dreadnaughts into pings around the Keepstar. These dreads would die to the PAPI supercapitals and carriers that were formed on the Keepstar and then quickly be replaced as wave after wave of these small groups of capital ships were sent in for hours on end.

This strategy, spearheaded by the russian Drone Region Federation a couple of years before, proved effective in the end. The Keepstar died but only after The Imperium was bled on a staggering amount of around one trillion ISK worth of ships destroyed.

Fraternity immediately anchored a second Keepstar in the same system in a baller move.

The stage was set. Another battle just like this one would be fought the next day over that Keepstars onlining timer. This time however, PAPI would preping and prepare.

On October 6th, 2020, the second Fraternity Keepstar came out of onlining and began its repair timer. PAPI had multiple subcap fleets on grid as well as supercapitals, long range dreads and carriers parked on top of it. A wall had been built. The Imperium however, was going to contest it hard.

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